STATE OF NEW YORK
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4658--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. EICHENSTEIN, JACOBSON -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Local Governments -- recommitted to the Committee
on Local Governments in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to limiting the
naming of municipalities and subdivisions thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new
2 section 99-z to read as follows:
3 § 99-z. Naming of municipalities; limitations. No municipal corpo-
4 ration, or any subdivision thereof, shall have a name containing the
5 word swastika and any municipal corporation, or any subdivision thereof,
6 which has a name containing the word swastika in it shall, by an act of
7 its governing body, change such name as to remove the word swastika.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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